Marco Silva believes Fulham claimed a “deserved win” towards Brentford, although admits they need to have secured the three factors a lot earlier of their 2-1 victory.
It regarded like Vitaly Janelt’s Twenty fourth-minute strike towards the run of play was going to wrap up all three factors for Brentford, however Harry Wilson proved the Cottagers’ hero off the bench, scoring twice in stoppage time to grab the three factors.
Fulham had dominated from the primary whistle and had 26 pictures, 12 of which had been on track, although they struggled to discover a well past their opponents’ staunch defence till the 92nd minute.
Wilson grew to become simply the sixth participant to attain an equalising and match-winning objective from the ninetieth minute onwards within the Premier League, whereas his second objective was Fulham’s latest-ever Premier League winner at 96:46.
Silva was delighted with how his crew pushed till the ultimate seconds to make sure they got here away with a win.
“It was undoubtedly a deserved win. We began on the entrance foot and dominated all the sport. Within the first 20 minutes, we had two clear probabilities to attain,” Silva informed BBC Sport.
“After they scored, we didn’t lose the arrogance and the belief in ourselves, we saved pushing them again, and we created sufficient to not be dropping at half-time.
“I informed the gamers that is soccer, it might probably occur, however we’ve to maintain pushing, working laborious and taking part in our method.
“It was late, it ought to’ve been a lot earlier than, however that’s soccer.”
Brentford, in the meantime, have now dropped a league-high 14 factors from profitable positions within the Premier League as they suffered a fifth consecutive away defeat within the competitors.
In actual fact, they’re the primary aspect within the competitors’s historical past to attain the primary objective in 4 consecutive away video games and lose all 4.
They’d defended resolutely till their late lapse in focus, and even had an opportunity to win it, just for Bernd Leno’s spectacular save to maintain out Fabio Carvalho within the ninety fifth minute.
Thomas Frank, although, admitted he was not but able to take the positives from the efficiency after the frustration of their late defeat.
“It was robust. It’s emotionally very robust proper now,” Frank informed Sky Sports activities.
“When you find yourself main within the 92nd minute, and also you lose, it’s robust. I don’t assume we hit our highest stage. I believe on the day Fulham had been higher.
“There was loads of good defending and energy, and I assumed that will have given us the win. We may have gained it with the possibility for Fabio Carvalho after which we misplaced.
“After we take a look at the sport again, and we’re extra cool-headed, we are going to most likely be very proud of the defensive commonplace. I assumed there have been unbelievable blocks, and restoration runs and all that we did nicely. On the ball, we didn’t do sufficient.”
